Important: images showing marks left by CP are ‘likely’ to be banned

Fri. 25 Nov. 2016

Those who’ve been following my News page for a few years, or even only over the last 18 months, will know I have been communicating my concern about impending British internet censorship. No matter how it’s packaged, censorship is censorship, and onerous conditions are going to be imposed using “pornography” as the shoehorn: once that shoehorn of censorship has been inserted where it fits, more and more content will be levered onto the “virtually banned” list.

Be that as it may, an article in the Guardian on Wednesday brought the issue of “non-conventional sex acts” back into the spotlight. Directly relevant to those who enjoy even relatively conventional domestic scenarios, the article states:

Pictures and videos that show spanking, whipping or caning that leaves marks...are likely to be caught by the ban – in effect turning back the clock on Britain’s censorship regime to the pre-internet era.

Now I know what is meant by the “nanny state” – except any nanny I know would be quite happy to dish out a good spanking or caning and delight in the results.

The scheme the UK government will apparently impose upon websites with offending imagery will force site owners to implement complicated age-verification systems – which of course will open the door wide to hacking, mass loss of sensitive personal data, and blackmail. Foreign-based websites would need to implement such systems only for UK visitors, or else be banned outright. On this, the Guardian article outlines a third option for foreign sites:

In order to comply with the censorship rules, many mainstream adult websites would have to render whole sections inaccessible to UK audiences. That is despite the acts shown being legal for consenting over-16s to perform and for adults in almost all other liberal countries to film, distribute and watch.